Dr. Muayad Jajo (Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of
English, Komar University of Science and Technology)

Miss. Zareena Younis (English-Language Instructor at the Center of
Intensive Language Programs, Komar University of Science and Technology)

Brief Bios

Muayad Jajo is a university professor of English. He teaches
Ph.D. students of English as well as other postgraduate and undergraduate
students. In addition to teaching English and American Literature,
Comparative Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC,
ESL, EPC and ESP, he is a Japanologist, course designer, educator, teacher
trainer, composer, encyclopedist, guitarist, vocalist, acoustician, music
theorist, poet, painter, graphic and 3D designer, visual FX expert,
researcher, stage performer, C# programmer, NLP and mind control
tactician. Currently he is the chairman of the Department of English at
Komar University of Science and Technology, member of the Academic Promotion
Committee at Komar and the president of Japan Friendship Association. Over
the last three decades, he taught over 20,000 university students, gave over
100 different courses at various universities, institutes and language
centers, translated textbooks, supervised postgraduate students, wrote and
performed music and designed over 35 courses.

Zareena Younis is a senior English Instructor in the Center of
Intensive English Program at Komar University of Science and Technology
(KUST). She is teaching pre-academic
students and had also taught Academic English Writing II. Zareena was previously a paralegal and
advocate for human rights in the UK.
She assisted a human rights organization (cage prisoners) on two
research papers to do with the war on terror and ghost renditions. Her interests include charity work,
exploring different cultures, and travelling.

Workshop Duration:

2 hours

Workshop Date and Time

Thursday May 25, 2017

Place

KUST Auditorium

Workshop Description

This workshop outlines the core principles of effective academic
writing in English. It is divided into
two parts. The first part begins by
introducing the audience to the importance, uses and applications of academic
English and then draws attention to some misconceptions about its use. It then explains with illustrations each
principle. The second part of the
workshop engages the audience members into a problem-solving activity in
which they are required to convert a non-academic passage into an academic
one by applying the principles explained.

LOs

Identify the principles of academic
English

Convert non-academic English-language
discourse into academic English

Generate effective discourse in Academic
English

Targeted Audience

KUST and non-KUST community, particularly faculty members,
researchers, scholars and students, who wish to acquire, or improve their,
academic writing skills in English or in any other language.

Workshop Schedule:

Time

Activity

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Introduction to the Academic Writing

·Importance, Uses and
Applications of Academic English

·Illustration

·Misconceptions

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Principles of Academic Writing:

·Documentation

·Accuracy

·Precision

·Objectivity

·Linearity

·Unity

·Terminology

·Style

·Grammar

·Sentence Structure

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Members of the audience receive a passage written in non-Academic
English and are asked to convert it to academic English by applying the
principles elaborated above.